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"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
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"The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
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"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."
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"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
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"If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China."
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
Life
"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
Love
"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."
Philosophy
"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
Emotion
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
Time
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
People
"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
Society
"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
Religion
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